Ancien Régime

Meaning

Proper Noun

The aristocratic social and political system established in France under the Valois and Bourbon dynasties, overthrown by the French Revolution of 1789.

Origin

Borrowed from French Ancien Régime, from ancien + régime. The word first appeared in English in print in 1794.

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